Power and subversion in Byzantium papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010 /
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. :
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Table of Contents:
- Power and subversion in Byzantium : approaches and frameworks / Dimiter Angelov
- Usurpers and rebels in Byzantium : image and message through coins / Vasiliki Penna and Cβecile Morrisson
- How to usurp the throne in Byzantium : the role of public opinion in sedition and rebellion / Anthony Kaldellis
- The imperial council and the tradition of consultative decision-making in Byzantium (eleventh to fourteenth centuries) / Demetrios Kyritses
- Financial crisis and the limits of taxation under Andronikos II Palaiologos (1282-1321) / Kostis Smyrlis
- The political arts at the late Palaiologan court (1402-1453) / Michael Angold
- "The world turned upside down" : art and subversion in Byzantium / Liz James
- "It began with a picture" : imperial art, texts and subversion between East and West in the twelfth century / Antony Eastmond
- No prince of perfection : Byzantine anti-Aristotelianism from the patristic period to Pletho / Bθorje Bydβen
- Pletho as subversive and his reception in the Islamic world / Maria Mavroudi
- Generic subversion? : the political ideology of urban myth and apocalyptic prophecy / Paul Magdalino
- Harmless satire, stinging critique : notes and suggestions for reading the Timarion / Dimitris Krallis
- How to criticise the Laudandus / Margaret Mullett
- Subversion and duplicity in the histories of John Kantakouzenos / Athanasios Angelou
- Afterword : literary subversion in Byzantium: a partial and personal perspective / Margaret Alexiou.